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Kiriban prize for *Chrisabell

I am so sorry I took so long. Classes have been keeping me busy and I haven't had the length of time to spare to really dedicate myself to working on this. But I love the result.

Here is beautiful Hope strolling through the misty forest in autumn. I like the kind of spooky feel the moon and the mist has on the image. I thoroughly enjoyed this process.

Please give me critique on this--not the character since she's not mine--but the art itself. Style, technique, the water, all that jazz. The water looks better scanned than in real life, and I don't like that. Be polite, but tell me what I can do in the future to do better. And, I know...the shadows don't all match up. Unfortunately that's a result of working on this in patches of 30 minutes over nearly two months.
I also apologize if her coloring is a little off. The colored pencils are shaded a little differently than the digital image.

And I don't know how many times through I listened to Coldplay's beautiful album "Viva la Vida." Spectacularly haunting music.

Hope copyright *Chrisabell
Image copyright Ashley Mutek.
Prisma colored pencils on Bristol board.
October 15, 2008.

Description
Kiriban prize for *Chrisabell

I am so sorry I took so long. Classes have been keeping me busy and I haven't had the length of time to spare to really dedicate myself to working on this. But I love the result.

Here is beautiful Hope strolling through the misty forest in autumn. I like the kind of spooky feel the moon and the mist has on the image. I thoroughly enjoyed this process.

Please give me critique on this--not the character since she's not mine--but the art itself. Style, technique, the water, all that jazz. The water looks better scanned than in real life, and I don't like that. Be polite, but tell me what I can do in the future to do better. And, I know...the shadows don't all match up. Unfortunately that's a result of working on this in patches of 30 minutes over nearly two months.
I also apologize if her coloring is a little off. The colored pencils are shaded a little differently than the digital image.

And I don't know how many times through I listened to Coldplay's beautiful album "Viva la Vida." Spectacularly haunting music.

Hope copyright *Chrisabell
Image copyright Ashley Mutek.
Prisma colored pencils on Bristol board.
October 15, 2008.